Indictment

«Against this background, the ignorance of the American public about
global warming stands out as an indictment of the US media.

When the US press has bothered to cover the subject of global warming,
it has focused almost exclusively on its political and diplomatic
aspects and not on what the warming is doing to our agriculture, water
supplies, plant and animal life, public health, and weather.

For years, the fossil fuel industry has lobbied the media to accord
the same weight to a handful of global warming skeptics that it
accords the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
-- more than 2,000 scientists from 100 countries reporting to the
United Nations.»